must be counted a philosophical success not just because its central arguments stimulate a good deal of critical oncjecture but also because this volume of essays operates both intensively and extensively ... By forcing the readers to expand the steps of his reasoning, Crowther awakes the philosophical imagination of his readers prompting them to engage with the subject-matter. Such engagement is surely the point of philosophical discourse and in this respect Crowther succeeds very well ... If Nietzsche marked his approval with the phrase da capo (once more), Crowther's text is worthy of the hermeneutic plaudit "yet more".

• Introduction - an ecological theory of art. Part 1 Varieties and structures of aesthetic experience: the aesthetic domain - a logical geography; aesthetic experience and the experience of art; alienation and disalienation in abstract art. Part 2 The philosophical significance of art: fundamental ontology and transcendent beauty - an approach to Kant's aesthetics; Heidegger and the question of aesthetics; Merleau-Ponty - vision and painting; art, architecture and self-consciousness - an exploration of Hegel's aesthetics. Part 3 The ecological significance of art: the needs of self-consciousness - from aesthetic experience to unalienated artifice; art and the needs of self-consciousness; defining art - questions of creativity and originality.

must be counted a philosophical success not just because its central arguments stimulate a good deal of critical oncjecture but also because this volume of essays operates both intensively and extensively ... By forcing the readers to expand the steps of his reasoning, Crowther awakes the philosophical imagination of his readers prompting them to engage with the subject-matter. Such engagement is surely the point of philosophical discourse and in this respect Crowther succeeds very well ... If Nietzsche marked his approval with the phrase da capo (once more), Crowther's text is worthy of the hermeneutic plaudit "yet more".

• Introduction - an ecological theory of art. Part 1 Varieties and structures of aesthetic experience: the aesthetic domain - a logical geography; aesthetic experience and the experience of art; alienation and disalienation in abstract art. Part 2 The philosophical significance of art: fundamental ontology and transcendent beauty - an approach to Kant's aesthetics; Heidegger and the question of aesthetics; Merleau-Ponty - vision and painting; art, architecture and self-consciousness - an exploration of Hegel's aesthetics. Part 3 The ecological significance of art: the needs of self-consciousness - from aesthetic experience to unalienated artifice; art and the needs of self-consciousness; defining art - questions of creativity and originality.

must be counted a philosophical success not just because its central arguments stimulate a good deal of critical oncjecture but also because this volume of essays operates both intensively and extensively ... By forcing the readers to expand the steps of his reasoning, Crowther awakes the philosophical imagination of his readers prompting them to engage with the subject-matter. Such engagement is surely the point of philosophical discourse and in this respect Crowther succeeds very well ... If Nietzsche marked his approval with the phrase da capo (once more), Crowther's text is worthy of the hermeneutic plaudit "yet more".

• Introduction - an ecological theory of art. Part 1 Varieties and structures of aesthetic experience: the aesthetic domain - a logical geography; aesthetic experience and the experience of art; alienation and disalienation in abstract art. Part 2 The philosophical significance of art: fundamental ontology and transcendent beauty - an approach to Kant's aesthetics; Heidegger and the question of aesthetics; Merleau-Ponty - vision and painting; art, architecture and self-consciousness - an exploration of Hegel's aesthetics. Part 3 The ecological significance of art: the needs of self-consciousness - from aesthetic experience to unalienated artifice; art and the needs of self-consciousness; defining art - questions of creativity and originality.